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A rich programming API and a CSS theming system are avai

JSON-RPC is a stateless, light-weight remote procedure c... Primarily this specification defines several data struct... around their processing. It is transport agnostic in tha... be used within the same process, over sockets, over http... various mes

Groups of elements with a common parent that move forwar...
Every stacking context has a single HTML element as its ...
New stacking contexts can be formed on an element in one ...
When an element is the root element of a document (the < ...
... never

How did Amazon get away without using a delay?
It’s easy to move the cursor from Amazon’s main drop ...
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If the cursor moves into the blue triangle the currently ...
... switch the submenu, giving it a really responsive feel.

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“Make a break with the past and go in a new direct ...
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Sadly, animating with JavaScript was limiting and resour... initial foray into an infinitely looping background did ... in my CPU than amaze my friends (although it still looks...
Things are different now. CSS3 transitions and animation ...
In this pro

When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built ... application architecture that pushed all of the UI rende... JavaScript running on our users’ browsers and consumed... API directly, in a similar way to our mobile clients. Th...
To improve

In his opening keynote at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA ... Zeldman talked about the need to keep content front and ... and the Web design process. Here's my notes from his tal...
Content is really a design problem. Yet the sites we ...

Callimachus is a framework for data-driven applications ...
Callimachus allows Web developers to quickly and easily ...
Please see the installation instructions, then the Calli ...
Callimachus includes some sample applications to help ge ...
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The Public Suffix List is a cross-vendor initiative to p...
The usefulness of this can be seen if we take the exampl ...
Since there was and remains no algorithmic method of fin ...
Software using the Public Suffix List will be able to de ...
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One of our clients is currently using Ext and Embedly to... Facebook-like link submission tool. While writing up som... overboard and ended up coding the whole thing. It’s wo... the community as a whole, because we have seen this ques... before. Thi

When working on a web application that involves a lot of... the first things you learn is to stop tying your data to... too easy to create JavaScript applications that end up a... jQuery selectors and callbacks, all trying frantically t...
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